Iconocast Logo

Welcome To Iconocast

How to add a URL link from your web site to the Iconocast web sites

Virtual tour of Southern California

 

Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: sutures + wounds + make  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Lunch with Heather Perry
ScienceBlogs - Aug 4, 2008
He had spoken to Bart Huges about it, and Bart had said that he didn't think Lennon's cranial sutures had healed anyway, because he was such a creative ...
Biggest shock of the Air NZ Cup
Manawatu Standard, New Zealand - Aug 3, 2008
... a bombardment of text messages, while his players had so many wounds stitched up afterwards, team doc Peter Nicolaai must have run short of sutures. ...
From practice to OR
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Aug 4, 2008
We then slipped in an implant called hydroxyapatite, made from coral, and closed up the eye with sutures that resemble stitches on a baseball. ...
Episcopalians remain divided over issue of gay clergy
Waterbury Republican American, CT - Aug 3, 2008
The once-a-decade Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England, which ends today, showed no ability to suture those wounds. Although the conference was not ...

New York Times
Badge of Honor for the New Fighter: Mangled Ear
New York Times, United States - Jul 31, 2008
Properly drained, sutured and insulated, the ear can recover. The condition poses no serious threat to hearing, Ator said. But without medical care, ...
What's New in Orthopaedic Research
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (subscription) - Aug 1, 2008
In each animal, one side was treated with suture repair alone whereas the other side was treated with suture repair and augmented with the placement of a ...
RUTHERFORD ON FILM: 'Dark Knight'
HNN Huntingtonnews.net,  USA - Jul 20, 2008
An assemblage of cast members negating any ?camp? or ?fairy tale? elements for a gritty physically bruising (they suture wounds), for continual intellectual ...
Get to Know the 50 States (Alabama)
SportingNews.com - Jul 18, 2008
In 1902 Dr. Luther Leonidas Hill performed the first open heart surgery in the Western Hemisphere by suturing a stab wound in a young boy's heart. ...
Adventures in medicine spark interest for youth
Tacoma Weekly, WA - Jul 9, 2008
It fumbles to loop the suture around the clamp before the sticher asks, ?Am I doing this right?? That question would make any patient uneasy as they are ...
Charting the majors
DetNews.com, MI - Jul 25, 2008
The lip was badly swollen on Wednesday morning, with sutured a cut running from the lip toward his nose. "I feel good, other than the fact that my face is ...
Source: Google News

[PDF] Overweight and healing of midline incisions: the importance of suture technique -
LA Israelsson, T Jonsson - Eur J Surg, 1997 - firstsearch.oclc.org
... A monofilament suture material should be used (1, 2, 15, 17, 21, 22). The
patient?s build may also be important in wound healing and weight has been ...
-

THE ROLE OF SUTURES AND FIBRIN SEALANT IN WOUND HEALING -
WD Spotnitz, JK Falstrom, GT Rodeheaver - Surgical Clinics of North America, 1997 - Elsevier
... 5, possesses extensive adhesive and hemostatic properties that make it a beneficial
adjunct to sutures for closing wounds and promoting healing, as listed in ...

Wound Registry: Development and Validation -
JE Hollander, AJ Singer, S Valentine, MC Henry - Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1995 - Elsevier
... the tip of the irrigating needle from the wound edge is ... the type of needle used on
the suture material is ... that adopt this tool may wish to make minor revisions ...

Can the suturing method make a difference in postpartum perineal pain? -
N Fleming - Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 1990 - Elsevier
... CAN THE SUTURING METHOD MAKE A DIFFERENCE ... stitch technique for repairing perineal
wounds may reduce ... avoiding several layers of suture material, approximating ...

… Tissue Adhesive (Dermabond) and Suture for the Closure of Excisional Wounds in Children and … -
L Bernard, J Doyle, SF Friedlander, LF Eichenfield … - Archives of Dermatology, 2001 - Am Med Assoc
... and what you can do to make your experience ... both the octyl cyanoacrylate and standard
suture groups, wounds were closed using deep subcutaneous sutures. ...

Versatility of the Subcuticular Purse-String Suture in Wound Closure. -
JC Yuen - Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1996 - plasreconsurg.com
... horizontal mattress sutures are placed between the wound bed and the defect skin
edge to reinforce the purse-string suture and create a seal at the wound margin ...

Laser assisted skin closure(LASC) by using a 815-nm diode-laser system accelerates and improves … -
A Capon, E Souil, B Gauthier, C Sumian, M Bachelet … - Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, 2001 - doi.wiley.com
... To make this procedure easier and reproducible, we have ... Control and laser wounds
were ?rst closed by ... buried subdermal absorb- able sutures (polyglactin 910, 5 ...

A New Lamellar Wound Configuration for Penetrating Keratoplasty Surgery -
M Busin - Archives of Ophthalmology, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... mm Barron suction trephine was used to make a circular ... chamber showed that the surgical
wound was already ... to that previously described for the cardinal sutures. ...

Use of octyl-2-cyanoacrylate for skin closure in facial plastic surgery -
DM Toriumi, KO?Grady, D Desai, A Bagal? - Plast Reconstr Surg, 1998 - plasreconsurg.com
... skin edges of wound that would make proper approximation ... Note how polymer could enter
wound between epidermal ... (Below) Use of vertical mattress sutures to close ...

A randomized trial of abdominal incision suture technique and wound strength in rats -
MH Seid, LM McDaniel-Owens, GV Poole, GR Meeks - Archives of Surgery, 1995 - Am Med Assoc
... and what you can do to make your experience ... bloc suture or continuous running mass
suture technique for ... abdominal incisions results in stronger wounds, and to ...

Source: Google Scholar

Surgery without stitches

 

A thin polymer bio-film that seals surgical wounds could make sutures a relic of medical history.

Measuring just 50 microns thick, the film is placed on a surgical wound and exposed to an infrared laser, which heats the film just enough to meld it and the tissue, thus perfectly sealing the wound.

Known as Surgilux, the device’s raw material is extracted from crab shells and has Food and Drug Administration approval in the US.

Early test results indicate that it has strongest potential for use in brain and nerve surgery because it can avoid the numerous disadvantages of invasive stictches/sutures, which fail to seal and can act as a source of infection.

Up to 11% of brain surgery patients have to return for repeat surgery due to leakage of cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) and other complications arising from sutures.

Surgical sutures date back some 4,000 years, so a new approach is long overdue, according to one of the device’s inventors and leader of the Bio/polymer Research Group, UNSW scientist John Foster.

“Others have tried surgical glues but these are mainly gel-like so bonding to the tissue is uneven often resulting in leakages and they’re not easy to use. The strongest surgical glue is so toxic that it’s limited to external applications,” says Dr Foster. “Other devices use ultra-violet light to effect rather poor sealing, but UV rays are damaging to living cells

“The beauty of this is that infra-red laser doesn’t cause any tissue damage. Better still, Surgilux has anti-microbial properties, which deters post-operative infections.”

Foster and his team are working with micro-surgeon Marcus Stoodley who specialises in nerve repair. Based at the Prince of Wales Hospital Stoodley is excited about early test results.

“Surgilux is well suited to repairing damaged nerves because the gold standard -- sutures – inevitably cause damage to nerves and there is always some permanent loss of function.

“Our test results with rats have shown some degree of permanent nerve recovery within six weeks of operating.”

The researchers – who are looking for commercial backing to initiate clinical trials – are planning a second generation version of Surgilux that incorporates growth factors and perhaps stem cells to regenerate nerves.
 
 
 
Google
Web www.iconocast.com

Search inside Iconocast for the keyword you have in mind.

Iconocast has collected more than 50,000 articles and press releases on health and science.

These are current and most up to date press releases on the subject you are searching.

We collect current health and science press releases daily from more than 5000 research and health institutes. Here is an example : The elderberry way to perfect skin

We believe if you do search inside Iconocast, you will get better results than searching the web alone.

 
 
Continue News With: News4 ; News5 ; News6 ; News7 ; News8 ; News9 ; News9A


ADVERTISEMENT

Iconocast is about learning and teaching without borders; we offer eMarketing, Internet Advertising, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Online Branding, and eMarketing News Services.

 

Iconocast Home Page

Contact Iconocast

© 2003-07. ICONOCAST is a trademark of iconocast.com.